Playing Cards

Here is some stuff you won't know about our cards. They're made in Canada. More specifically the cards are printed in Montreal and the boxes in Vancouver. Why? Well, lets be honest, cards take a beating. If you're a serious card player you'll know the cards you'd use in a casino are produced the way they are for a reason. And we don't want to sell you a deck that looks pretty but falls apart after a few hands. That's why we use a company that prints and supplies playing cards to the major casinos here. And the boxes..., card printers typically have a standard box that, although can be beautified, is a universal shape. It keeps printing costs down because it already exists and makes life easy from a production

point of view. For instance, the cards are automatically stuffed into their boxes by a machine too. We didn't design a unique set of playing cards to have them stuffed into a standard box by a machine. Ours are custom made, they open on the side and we assemble each pack by hand. And that's not all. Each deck comes with a temporary replacement card incase a card gets lots or damaged. It has pre-printed guides you can fill in with a permanent marker. We also sell single cards so you can restore your deck without going to the expense of having to buy a new one. You see, our cards aren't for display. They're to be used, kept on you at all times and played with regularly.

TRIPLE VISION

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This deck was born from childhood memories. ‘Nerding out’ over ‘old-school’ 3D comics and cereal box promotions that used 3D art. The ones where you had to wear the red and blue paper glasses.

We decided to launch the idea on kickstarter to see what the playing card community thought. If that ‘old-school’ comic book style and 3D anaglyphic treatment pulled anyone else’s heartstring like it did ours. Luckily for us it did. Click here to see our campaign, additional photos and more.

FOREVER DIAMOND

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The idea for this design came from how a house of cards is constructed. The stacking technique used, when displayed graphically, put a simple twist on the classic diamond pattern seen on the backs of playing cards used in casinos.

It also created a unique typeface and way of displaying the pips and court cards. No card front has the same pattern of stacked cards used to create this design either.

DARK HOURS

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When designing this deck we wanted to be smart with how we used the elements that make a playing card work. To do this we used the rank to create the pip in the top left corner. You see both even though we only used one element.

We embraced the same visual trick, went big and bold, and used the pip to create the rank in the centre of the card. End result, a smart card design to be admired by everyone including the visually impaired.

THE HUNTED

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We realised in some situations the centre of cards are useless. So for this design we ditched them. We also displayed the ranks as words and put them on an angle so you can get a really tight fan with your hand.

That's not all. Waste not, want not - we put the bits we chopped off the words on the card backs to create a graphic tiger stripe pattern… grrrrrrr!